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Discrete fundamental and dipole solitons are constructed, in an exact analytical form, in an array of linear waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, which is composed of two nonlinear waveguides carrying equal gain and…

Solitons - localized wave packets that travel without spreading - play a central role in understanding transport and properties of nonlinear systems, from optical fibers to fluid dynamics. In quantum many-body systems, however, such robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

We study spatial and temporal solitons in the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric coupler with gain in one waveguide and loss in the other. Stability properties of the high- and low-frequency solitons are found to be completely determined by a single…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 N. V. Alexeeva , I. V. Barashenkov , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

It is shown that matter solitons can be effectively managed by means of smooth variations of parameters of optical lattices in which the condensate is loaded. The phenomenon is based on the effect of lattice modulations on the carrier wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop , V. Kuzmiak

We introduce soliton percolation phenomena in the nonlinear transport of light packets in suitable optical lattices with random properties. Specifically, we address lattices with a gradient of the refractive index in the transverse plane,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

Geometric properties of waves and wave functions can explain the appearance of integer-valued observables throughout physics. For example, these 'topological' invariants describe the plateaux observed in the quantised Hall effect and the…

The bulk-boundary correspondence relates quantized edge states to bulk topological invariants in topological phases of matter. In one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological systems (SPTs), quantized topological Thouless pumps directly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-20 Julian F. Wienand , Friederike Horn , Monika Aidelsburger , Julian Bibo , Fabian Grusdt

We show the possible stable soliton generation for the dark-state polaritons (DSPs) in an electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) medium composed of $\Lambda$-type atoms. Whether the solitons are dark or bright can be controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiong-Jun Liu , Hui Jing , Mo-Lin Ge

In this paper, we employ, for the first time, the holographic gravity approach to investigate the dynamical stability of solitons in spherical superfluids. Transverse perturbations are applied to the background of spherical soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Meng Gao , Yu Tian , Changxu Yan , Hongbao Zhang

This letter reports experimental results on a new type of soliton: the random temporal dark soliton. One excites an incoherent large-amplitude propagating spin-wave packet in a ferromagnetic film strip with a repulsive, instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Wei Tong , Mingzhong Wu , Lincoln D. Carr , Boris A. Kalinikos

We describe different types of self-trapped optical beams carrying phase dislocations, including vortex solitons and ring-like soliton clusters. We demonstrate numerically how to create such nonlinear singular beams by the interaction of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Anton Desyatnikov , Cornelia Denz , Yuri Kivshar

The dynamics of dark-bright solitons beyond the mean-field approximation is investigated. We first examine the case of a single dark-bright soliton and its oscillations within a parabolic trap. Subsequently, we move to the setting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 G. C. Katsimiga , G. M. Koutentakis , S. I. Mistakidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher

We report an experimental investigation of the effect of finite depth on the statistical properties of wave turbulence at the surface of water in the gravity-capillary range. We tune the wave dispersion and the level of nonlinearity by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-15 Roumaissa Hassaini , Nicolas Mordant

New exact solution class of Born -- Infeld type nonlinear scalar field model is obtained. The variational principle of this model has a specific form which is characteristic for extremal four-dimensional hypersurface or hyper-film in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 Alexander A. Chernitskii

We consider one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) optical or matter-wave media with a maximum of the local self-repulsion strength at the center, and a minimum at periphery. If the central area is broad enough, it supports ground states in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-02 Liangwei Zeng , Boris A. Malomed , Dumitru Mihalache , Yi Cai , Xiaowei Lu , Qifan Zhu , Jingzhen Li

The existence and stability of defect solitons in parity-time (PT) symmetric optical lattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are reported. It is found that nonlocality can expand the stability region of defect solitons. For positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-19 Sumei Hu , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Yizhou Zheng , Wei Hu

In the present work, we numerically explore the existence and stability properties of different types of configurations of dark-bright solitons, dark-bright soliton pairs and pairs of dark-bright and dark solitons in discrete settings,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Alvarez , J. Cuevas , F. R. Romero , P. G. Kevrekidis

N-dark-dark solitons in the generally coupled integrable NLS equations are derived by the KP-hierarchy reduction method. These solitons exist when nonlinearities are all defocusing, or both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are mixed.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-12 Yasuhiro Ohta , Dengshan Wang , Jianke Yang

Solitons are important nonperturbative excitations in superfluids. For holographic superfluids, we numerically construct dark solitons that have the symmetry-restored phase at their core. A central point is that we include the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Zhongshan Xu , Yiqiang Du , Johanna Erdmenger , René Meyer , Yu Tian , Zhuo-Yu Xian